Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Manisuli Ssenyonjo - Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011
"Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" is
a collection of seminal papers examining legal, conceptual and practical
questions regarding the international legal protection of economic, social and
cultural rights. The volume discusses what human rights obligations economic,
social and cultural rights entail for states and non-state actors; the nature
and scope of substantive economic, social and cultural rights such as education,
health, work, water, enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress, and
cultural rights; as well as the justiciability of these rights at an
international level and at the national level. The paramount importance of such
questions is illustrated, among other things, by the catastrophic situation of
economic, social and cultural rights as human rights in developing and developed
states. This volume is divided into three main parts which focus on human rights
obligations for states and non-state actors arising from treaties protecting
economic, social and cultural rights; analysisof selected substantive rights;
and, finally the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights in
various contexts such as within the United Nations, Europe, Inter-American, and
African systems, as well as within the domestic system.
